Environments for Healthy Living (EFHL)
EFHL is a prospective, multi-level, multi-year longitudinal birth cohort study. It was designed to collect information from before birth through adulthood across a spectrum of eco-epidemiological factors, including genetic material from cord-blood samples at birth, individual and familial factors, and spatial data on the living environment. EFHL commenced the pilot phase of recruitment in 2006 and open recruitment in 2007, and by 2011, the cohort included over 4,000 offspring of women who planned to give birth at the Logan, Gold Coast, and Tweed Hospitals in Australia.
Study design
Cohort - open
Number of participants at first data collection
3,446 (participants)
Age at first data collection
Birth (participants)
Participant year of birth
2006 - 2011 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2006
Primary Institutions
Griffith University
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Griffith University
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – unspecified
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Healthcare data
Engagement
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